Here is a wonderful vintage illustration of swans in the park. There is one large swan in the foreground and several swans swimming on a stream in the background. A beautiful old bridge arches over the stream and several birds are in flight in the distant background. The image is from Little Folks Natural History…
Kindergarten Songs for March
This vintage page of sheet music was written for kindergarten students. Included on the page are four short songs for the young children to learn during the month of March. The songs are: The Kite Bird, The Mill, A Jingle and The Wind. This page of sheet music is from the book First Year Music by Hollis Dann,…
Birds Carrying Easter Eggs
This beautiful vintage Easter postcard features two birds carrying eggs that are decorated with blue flowers and pink ribbons. Branches of pussy willows are tucked behind the background and peek out from slits on the right side and top of the background of the postcard. The outer edge of the card is finished in a…
Vintage Bride Clip Art
Here is a vintage magazine advertisement for a book titled Weddings and Wedding Anniversaries. The book was published by The Butterick Publishing Co. of New York and cost 15 cents. The ad includes a beautiful illustration of a bride. Here is a black and white clip art version of the image from the ad. The…
Clapsaddle St. Patrick’s Day Postcard
This vintage St. Patrick’s Day postcard by Ellen Clapsaddle includes a lovely harp and an open scroll with the message: Let Erin Remember. Vines of shamrocks are framing the scroll and harp. The illustration is all on a green and white background. Click on image to enlarge.
Fireman Fisherman Dictionary Pages
These aged pages, from a vintage dictionary in my collection that was published in 1922, include the words: fire, firecracker, fire-engine, firefly, fireman, fireside, firework, first-fruits, fish, fisherman, fishery and fishing. Click on images to enlarge.
Pink Peony Flower Child
Here is a shabby vintage storybook page that includes an illustration of a charming pink peony lady. The page also includes the following short poem: PEONY’S a charming lady,She doesn’t like a spot too shady;Likes to live out in the light,Dressed in red or pink or white. Here is a cleaner version of the charming…
Soldier Statues Clip Art
Here are two antique clip art illustrations of soldier statues. The corresponding description for the images in the book I scanned them from is: “The noble old romance, the “Nicbelungen Lied,” has furnished Fernkorn with subjects for characteristic statues, executed in bronze at the foundry of the Prince of Salms, at Vienna.” The illustrations are…
Easter Bunny Riding Train
This vintage Easter postcard features two bunnies on a train. One bunny is riding in the engine and the other is in the caboose, behind a boxcar filled with colorful Easter eggs. There is a cluster of pussy willows in the foreground on the lower left side of the card and on the lower right…
Carriages and Sleighs
This old book page is filled with a variety of illustrations of antique carriages and sleighs. The page is titled, “Late Styles of Fashionable Carriages and Sleighs”. You can find a similar page of antique transportation (carriages and vehicles) on my blog here. I scanned the page from Hill’s Manual of Social and Business Forms,…
Broom Flower Illustration
Here is a beautiful vintage illustration of a Broom flower with yellow flowers growing on a green stem. The scientific name for this lovely flower is Cytisus scoparius. The illustration is from a book titled Wayside and Woodland Blossoms by Edward Step, F.L.S., 1909. Click on image to enlarge.
Three Varieties of Onions
Here are black and white clip art illustrations of three varieties of onions. The first illustration features three Deep Blood-Red Onions. The second illustration features a bunch of Early White Naples Onions and the third illustration features a single James’s Keeping Onion. The images are from the Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening – A Practical and Scientific Encyclopedia of…
